, 1887-06-23
CREMATION.
LaPUSH, ". T, June Is, 1881.

'@-At tSilr " +, June ij. 1881.
IN Indian came to the store to get
some caIco and said a Child Was dead.
went to see il. Il was not dead. II
had bad c1Id on It's lungs. from expos
ure By being doctored all night by the
Indian doctor. Fhey had kept the child
naked; the doctor put his hands in cold
water, tEcn to the fire, bus not erpuoh
to warm them. then cIawed them over
the child. There was a free circulation
OF SEA breeze. Any child with such treat
meHt, whether ailing CT not. would get =
bad cold, The doctor kent up i coatip-
nous howl all night to drive the devil
away. l told the parents that the mode
OF treatment would kill the child. If
white People, who know how TO take
care of "a child had taken it at this period
1t would have been well in few days.
The third day l heard "a special howl in
the camp. L supposed the child was now
dead, and l went in. Twenty women
ana ten men were III the camp, making
plteous wall. One man was boIJ1nr
the child. [ uncovered its face. If had
a silk handkerchief doubled over it and
then four tlickncsses of heavy blanket
remarked, the child IS not dead. but
you are smotLeriug it." They covered II
up again. l would have interFered. bnt
as l could not take charge of it | knew
it YVES only question of short time till
they would kill IT, and what | did wouId
only prolOng It's misery, so [ went out.
In about one hour it ceased to breathe
being smOthered. They carried it about
eighty rods TO a pile of float wood on the
ocean beach, laid it on a pile OF wood
and set it on fire. When L saw the fire |
went to sea what they were doing. They
broke about thirty bowls, cut holes in
several tin pans, and threw them on the
fire. They also burned several other
things. Four men were doing the work
OF iDng up As the pile burned down
they would poke the child into the hot
test place and put more OF the burning
fagGOts over it. When it was all burned
to Il crisp the four men with their hands |
shOveled pile of sand on the fire. The |
mourners, except two, remained at the !
house. When the work was done they
went TO the bay and washed their faces
and hands. To make long story short, |
a child that was a little unwe!l was muir
dered and burned. 1t was about one |
year Old. Peace to its ashes.
THE INDIANS
Have as many children bern as white !
people do, yet none have large families, !
which they admire and would like to |
have. None but the most hardy endure |
the hard trcltm mt that babies get They |
are generally kept in Il nude condition. |
There are two young men and one young |
women, aged about 10, 16 and Is years, !
that have got the rheumatism. They are |
kept naked, water and bowling admin |
istered every night. They burn their |
legs aud make sores on them. The water |
and clawing and hOwling is made on the |
back, and breast, and head, and bowels. |
The feet and legs are cold and the head |
kept near the fire, with but littl1 clothing |
and less bedding. They have plenty, |
but don't use it to make themselves COM
Portable. They use Il great deal Of water |
and yet are very filthy. They are a little
improved since white people came among
them, but they need missionary to |
teach them the way of life and salvation.
The missionary might have authority to |
stop the present system of doctoring,
stop their gambling and make them bury |
their filth-tiSh aud seal.
The mail route from Neah Bay to
Quileute has been changed. The steamer /
Dispatch now leaves the mail at Pyscht |
1t is taken over pass in the Olympic
down Beaver creek, past
Beaver and Lake Prairie, following the
Soldue River. thence to Qnileute, four
miles across the prairie. three miles
across the bottom land to the Quileute |
river, across and one mile to Lapush.
MIR. South has the contract as mail car
ricr. A new postoffice at Lake Prairie
will be next in order. Nail leaves |
Pyscht at 6 a. m, every Friday.
A J. SMITH.